Anyone want to play a game of chess with me, at a slow pace?

[FnG]magnolia;23448419 said:
I can't help but feel we need a commentator, someone who understands chess and can offer impartial updates as to progress.
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So far there is little to comment on, but I'll be an unofficial commentator of this thread :)
 
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Lightnix Vs DirtyJester
 
Monserrat said:
LOL yes, it does that to me too. E.g. the AI player only had his king left and I still had my queen and a castle. Trapped the king in a corner, then the AI declares a draw!
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If the opponent can't make a legal move, and isn't in check, then the game is a draw. Forcing a draw is a last resort move and the most annoying, but I've had to do it before (and had it done to me)
 
Judgeneo said:
If the opponent can't make a legal move, and isn't in check, then the game is a draw. Forcing a draw is a last resort move and the most annoying, but I've had to do it before (and had it done to me)
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Thanks for explaining. I knew about the 3-repeated-move rule for stalemate but didn't know about the situation you explained.
 
DirtyJester said:
...bump, ugh whaat, what was that?
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If you are referring to Lightnixs move its shorthand for G1 -> F3

See below:
Lysander said:
Nice boards, nice work. Like it.



Notation can be a lot simpler. You don't need to say where a piece already is, just where it's going to.

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For instance, on the new board as it is now, Nf3 means you move the right-hand most Knight to square f3. You don't need to specify the left-hand most knight because it's impossible for it to move there.

K = King, Q = Queen, B = Bishop, R = Rook, N = Knight [since the 'k' is already taken for King].

If we moved the knight to square f3 and it captured another piece, this would be written Nxf3.

Final piece of info is that you never need to specify a pawn, there is no letter for pawn. So my opening move for the game would simply be e4. There is only one pawn which can move to e4, so there it is.

There are a couple more things you should know but we'll address them as they happen.

So my move = e4
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Not to be pedantic about annotation, but you don't need to specify the starting square unless two of the same pieces could get there, which of course can only occur with Rooks and Knights.

So rather than 1. e2 - e4, just state 1. e4.
 
gillywibble said:
Not to be pedantic about annotation, but you don't need to specify the starting square unless two of the same pieces could get there, which of course can only occur with Rooks and Knights.

So rather than 1. e2 - e4, just state 1. e4.
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yeah but it helps whenever you come in next day, head banging, with blurred vision you then know the starting point ;)
 
[FnG]magnolia;23448419 said:
I can't help but feel we need a commentator, someone who understands chess and can offer impartial updates as to progress.
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the problem is how do you do that and not possibly give away ideas/tactics when the players can see the observers' comments on their own games... :(
 
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